If you only fix symptoms, the real problem will keep coming back, waste time and energy.
Therefore, it’s critical to identify, understand, and avoid pitfalls, discover strategic and predictive pathways to change, increase confidence, position a brand and leverage resources to make the digital paradigm shift effortlessly. Slideshare Presentation
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Innersymptomsofdigitalconundrum The digital paradigm shift means radical change. It represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with people at the center of its focus. Digitalization has multifaceted perspectives unfold into a wider multi-dimensionally enhancing systemic continuum. In the digital organization, change is the new normal, happens all the time. The ability to change and business adaptability directly decide the organization’s long-term competency. However, Change Management has a very low success rate, business leaders should pay more attention to the symptoms of the digital conundrum, and ensure that change becomes an ongoing capability and an iterative business continuum.
Unprofessioalismcharacteristics The business environment is full of uncertainty, velocity, complexity, and ambiguity, high professionalism is an important quality for today’s multigenerational, multicultural and multi-devicing workforce, and it is a foundation to shape growth mindsets, cultivate open-minded leadership, nurture culture of learning and positive atmosphere with intellectual stimulation, to both unleash employees’ potential and drive organizational maturity seamlessly.
Unconscious Bias No one is absolutely objective. We all have biases; some with more; some with less; some of that we are aware of and some of that we are not. Have you ever mislabeled, or over-analyzed others; have you always kept bi-polar thinking to judge “good or bad”? Have you always listened to what is being told or taught without a second thought? Have you paid too much attention to trivial or insignificant details, but lost the holistic picture? Etc. With the rapid growth of information and fast-paced changes, it’s important to challenge conventional wisdom and eliminate pre-conceptual assumptions or unconscious bias which is often caused by misperception or mislabeling. Perception is based on one’s thought processes which are influenced by one’s thinking style, cognitive understanding, and knowledge level, therefore, it is subjective. Understanding the filters that influence one’s unconscious biases is critical to the choice or the judgment you make. Because when the assumption is wrong, the conclusion will also go wrong. Here are three “Do Not” practices to overcome unconscious bias.
Itdysfunctionalsymptoms&rootcauses Forward-looking organizations empower their IT to drive changes and lead the digital transformation. In reality, the problems of many traditional organizations are silo mentality, incoherent processes, overly rigid hierarchy, fractal structure, or bureaucratic management style. To improve the organizational maturity, IT needs to not only look at dysfunctional symptoms but also dig through root causes, reinvent itself as a strategic partner of the business. IT transformation is a significant step in the business’s digital transformation. It takes visionary leadership, a solid governance process, talented people and the latest technologies or tools to climb up organizational maturity. Here are three IT dysfunctional symptoms.
Fixing the Wrong Cause of a Problem? As a human species, we are still facing many problems and challenges. Either for individuals, organizations, or society as a whole, the problem-solving capability is crucial to surviving and thriving. However, many decision-makers fail to fully grasp and accurately perceive what leads to problems and difficulties. Often, events and patterns are observed on the surface, and then the action is taken, but that is too early. After observing events and patterns, there are the underlying structures, the mechanisms, that cause the problem. And people who lack critical thinking usually never question because "it's the way things should be." Problem-solving in the majority of organizations today is woefully inadequate, so what happens when you focus on fixing the wrong cause of problems?
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